Not really much of an "opinion" to state here, but here is Team 610's current software line-up with respect to our complete workflow (not just CAD):
- Google Apps for:
- Gmail: student, teacher + mentor e-mail addresses
- Calendar: shared calendar with meetings, supervision schedule, events
- Zoho Project: project management, task lists, wiki
- Groups: e-mail lists for entire team, mentors, student executive
- Docs: Team lists, project notes, budgets, inventories, "to-buy" lists
- Code: Code version control w/ SVN and integrate NetBeans client
- SolidWorks for CAD
- VisualMill Plug-in for Solidworks (to drive our CNC Router)
- Windows-based file shares for document storage on school intranet
- Remote access to shares using HTTP Commander
I've had a chance to try Inventor, PTC WildFire + WindChill, and various other software combinations over the past few years. This is the best I've managed to come up with so far, and so far I've been very happy with it.
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